New Delhi: After the Trinamool Congress, the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) on Monday became the second party to withdraw support from the UPA Government. The JVM(P), with its two MPs, was supporting the government from outside.
"We are withdrawing support to the UPA government following its anti-people policies. We will meet President Pranab Mukherjee soon and submit the letter of withdrawal," JVM(P)'s Principal General Secretary Pradip Yadav and party's Lok Sabha member Ajay Kumar said a press conference.
"Our party is against FDI in retail, hike in diesel price and cap in LPG cylinders," they added.
JVM(P), headed by former chief minister Babulal Marandi, has two MPs in the Lok Sabha including himself. After the withdrawal of the support of the Trinamool Congress, the majority for UPA Government has come down to 306, which includes key outside supporters - Samajwadi Party (22) and Bahujan Samaj Party (21).
Meanwhile, the UPA Government's another key ally the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) made it clear that the party would support any resolution against FDI in multi-brand retail in Parliament.
At the DMK executive meeting in Chennai, the party supremo and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi said that even though FDI won't be a sticky point in the ties with Congress, he asked the Central Government to reconsider the decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail.
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